My husband is firmly of the belief that almost any dish can be improved by the addition of chillies. Ideally lots of chillies... One of our standbys is chilli jelly and this year for the first time we've made sweet chilli sauce.

Salt Sugar Smoke is broken into different sections of preserving and then each part begins with extensive notes on the methods and ingredients used. It could easily have become dry and dull but Diana Henry has such a way of writing that it is interesting.